1976 Engine Rebuild

[dan filipi]

I played some honing an old GL block and kept hitting the casting at the bottom of the skirt there Lol.

Seriously though, good video!

 

[slabghost]

Nice how to vid on honing.

 

[Fstsix]

Looking good , not much of a Ridge on the top of the cylinders. :good:

 

[bronko37]

dan filipi » Wed Feb 03, 2016 5:41 pm[/url]":281q34ev]
I played some honing an old GL block and kept hitting the casting at the bottom of the skirt there Lol.

Seriously though, good video!

Yea, that casting is impossible to not hit there Dan. I looked it over and it didnt do anything to that surface, its not a mating surface either so all good there. Once you are aware that its there you get into a rhythm and just kinda "bump" against it. Coulda done a better job if I didnt have ta hold that dang phone! lol. Im looking into a camera as I want to do a video log on the build of that 750 I just bought.

 

[bronko37]

slabghost » Wed Feb 03, 2016 7:23 pm[/url]":93432jf9]
Nice how to vid on honing.

:thanks:

 

[bronko37]

Fstsix » Wed Feb 03, 2016 7:23 pm[/url]":34982ku2]
Looking good , not much of a Ridge on the top of the cylinders. :good:

Yea, this whole motor has really been in phenomenal shape. That ridge came out real quick, not much to it. I think just at some point this motor got way too hot and that is the single root cause of all the issues ive sorted on this machine over the last 2 years. Im thinking this is the last piece of the puzzle that will fix all those little things that are wrong. Ive had a steady oil leak on this thing since I got it and I have replaced every seal on it, except where the cases join. Cleaning and re-sealing those surfaces will, im sure, fix this minor nuisance problem. Lil sealant around that main seal is not a bad idea either :read: :beer:

 

[joedrum]

yes it is a great vid on honing ...the use of oil and slow speed is great advice ...also it should be said that at high speed you eventually get past the ability of the stonr in the hone to cut evenly and the ripple effect starts happening cut and bounce and cut and bounce ...there is a maxium of speed that one can cut smoothly ...in my opinion ...

 

[bronko37]

You are dead on Joe. If you watch videos of a hone machine used on engine blocks, the hone does not turn very fast at all. Most of the vids on line show guys running their drill as fast as it will go and then move it back and forth as fast as they can. All they are doing is wearing themselves out, lol. The drill is spinning so fast that most times there is no way their arms can keep up with the RPM. This concept comes naturally to me because of my machining background. But many folks don't recognize the correlation between RPM and feed.

 

[mcgovern61]

I finally got a chance to watch the honing video. Man, that was great and easy to understand!! :clapping: :thanks:

 

[julimike54]

mcgovern61 » Today, 9:17 am[/url]":1wx7mjd2]
I finally got a chance to watch the honing video. Man, that was great and easy to understand!! :clapping: :thanks:

+1 :good: opcorn:

 

[rob.lafady]

Nicely done!

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[bronko37]

rob.lafady » Thu Feb 04, 2016 4:23 pm[/url]":1lny1j5x]
Nicely done!

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Thank you very much sir!

Looks like a few folks are finding the info beneficial, all I could hope for. :builder:

 

[julimike54]

:music: :music: :good: :good: opcorn: opcorn:

 

[bronko37]

Over the weekend we got the case halves rejoined. :yahoo: It went really smoothly and now I am ready to begin attaching the other components to the engine. I got my head gaskets yesterday but after going round n round with my supplier on how these gaskets are not OEM I have to wait. I am a big advocate of using OEM head gaskets on these bikes. So that will set me back a little bit, but I still have plenty I can do in the mean time.

Over the course of this week I have also painted the starter motor, transmission cover, oil filter housing, thermostat housing, coolant pipes and their elbows. I am not going to paint the block as the factory paint is in pretty nice condition, its chipped and scuffed up just right and I think painting it will make it stick out like a sore thumb from the rest of the beast.

Enjoi....

 

[bronko37]

I found this blast from the past. This is literally 20 minutes after I got the bike. I purchased this motorcycle on ebay for $700 from a man in Pennsylvania. I live near Chicago so I had it shipped at the expense of $400, all in all I think it was a good investment. At this moment in time I had no idea what this bike was going to do to me. I had never worked on motorcycles so I had no knowledge of working on carburetors, suspension, cooling systems, exhaust, etc. This machine changed all that for me and made me a better person. This is the bike that started it all for me. She is literally running on 2 of 4 cylinders in this video. It was February and cold out and I cant believe I even got it to run at all. That was the first of many minor accomplishments to come.

I love this machine....

 

[joedrum]

to bad the vid didnt show some action parts but ...looks to be very good work bronko great job

 

[dan filipi]

Nice.
I really like your videos.

 

[bronko37]

joedrum » Wed Feb 10, 2016 10:14 am[/url]":1c5kdbsy]
to bad the vid didnt show some action parts but ...looks to be very good work bronko great job

I wish I could do that too Joe. I am working on getting a camera and tri-pod set up. Right now I'm doing it all with my phone so hands are required. It really did go together pretty smoothly tho.

 

[bronko37]

dan filipi » Wed Feb 10, 2016 10:18 am[/url]":13i5ul64]
Nice.
I really like your videos.

Thanks a lot Dan!

 

[Ansimp]

dan filipi » Thu Feb 11, 2016 1:18 am[/url]":2qv0vokd]
Nice.
I really like your videos.

+1 :good: